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office:
Andover 308
telephone:
617.384.7872
email
faculty assistant
Charles Hallisey joins the Faculty of Divinity in 2007–08 after teaching at
the University of Wisconsin as Associate Professor in the Department of
Languages and Cultures of Asia since 2001. Since January 2005, he had also
been director of Wisconsin's Religious Studies Program. Earlier he taught at
Amherst College and at Harvard, where he was John L. Loeb Associate
Professor of the Humanities in the Committee on the Study of Religion and
the Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies from 1996 to 2001. His
research centers on Theravada Buddhism in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia, Pali
language and literature, Buddhist ethics, literature in Buddhist culture. He
is currently working on a book project entitled Flowers on the Tree of
Poetry: The Moral Economy of Literature in Buddhist Sri Lanka.
On leave for fall term.
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